Honourable Mentions

PIEMICPOL7627

from Poland
project by Michał Pietrusiewicz, Justyna Błasiak, Krzysztof Afeltowicz

Design

In the era of today's crisis, reaching many levels, thinking about sustainable, environmentally friendly architecture, properly using its resources, should be the basis for designing. The task of contemporary architecture is to look for the relationship between its place, history and the needs of its users. The primary school building, apart from educating children and providing them with new experiences and impressions, should ensure a sense of security and create a community between themselves, teachers and the world around them. The main idea is to create a place that, in harmony with the surrounding nature, will affect the development of students, providing them with proper education and development opportunities. An important aspect of the project is also understanding the value of Senegalese culture, which is the richness of the surrounding nature, vegetation and water. It combines features in accordance with the 3R principle: reduce, reuse, recycle. A simple, legible layout creates a strong form that interacts harmoniously in space. The horizontal, linear arrangement refers to the rich tradition of the region, evoking associations with a boat, an acacia leaf or spearhead. The gentle entasis marking the edge of its elevation in contact with the observer curves his sense of the boundary, affecting his perception. Contact with the building becomes an experience, and the building itself becomes a part of its surroundings, creating a new dialogue with it. All materials and construction elements are recyclable in line with circular design. A simple, economical structure based on a rhythmic arrangement of columns, reinforced with a gabion grid, allows for an open and flexible way of planning space and its functions. The building adapts to the needs and requirements of its users, creating three main internal zones: open, serving as the main school hall, canteen and laboratory, didactic, consisting of six classrooms, and administrative, combined with an observation room, offices for teachers and warehouse. A covered, external shaded terrace connects all rooms, minimizing the communication area in the building. The shape of the roof and the retention channels surrounding the building allow rainwater to be collected.

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TRINARFRA1742

from France
project by Tristan Narcy

Design

School is a generous world that opens up perspectives and encourages discovery. It is also a protected world where children must be supervised. It is a place that must be able to accommodate as many children as possible, and at the same time, to accommodate to each child's individual needs. It's a place of transition and integration. So in a place where schooling is undergoing great difficulties, the challenge for the school building is to propose new solutions to the challenges associated with its location, challenges that are perhaps not yet all foreseen. This imposed flexibility translates into a ‘at the same time' space. A cross-shaped plan that can be both an exterior and an interior space, a place that is open to the outside world and capable of folding back into the study. Articulated with lightweight panels, the classrooms can be turned into large living spaces, into a refectory for lunchtimes, a multi-purpose room for extra-curricular activities, a meeting place for ngo's and external training courses, or a space that opens to the public after class hours. Between these spaces are the areas that serve and organise schooling. The kitchen, the teachers' room, the headmaster's office and the patios, which provide distance from the classrooms during lessons, all face the central cross and ensure that activities are organised.

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